Author: Ben
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Need to design a tutorial framework
There is a huge need for something that would make it easy to design tutorials. As I see it, a tutorial is a step by step document leading the viewer toward completion of a goal, whether it be the design of a graphic, a game, some code, or any process realting to graphic and web…
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Making hand drawn fonts with a tablet, Adobe Illustrator and Glyphs Mini
Watch a video explaining my process for making hand drawn fonts with Adobe Illustrator CS6, Glyphs Mini and my bamboo tablet: The finished product: You can download the font here: https://github.com/field2/quickworms
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Designing Dashicons
The dashicons font created for the mp6 plugin has pretty much taken up all of my time the last few weeks. This even with help from Mel Choyce, Joen Asmussen and the rest of the WP design team. There are quite a few resources on how to do this, but most of the ones I’ve…
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Icon fonts
So I’m trying to see if it’s possible to use a font for icons on a site, as has been attempted by the likes of fontawesome and probably many others. Prognosis to date: it doesn’t look good. I drew a 16×16 pixel box in Illustrator CS6. Copy/pasted it into the lower-case “a” glyph in Fontlab…
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Codekit icons
Looks like some of my ideas got implemented in the latest version of codekit. Not as crisp and clear as the ones I did though:
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Retina is a subjective term
I’m nearsighted and when I take my glasses off I can see pixels on a “retina” display clear as day.
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SVG icon demo
Here’s two versions of the WordPress home icon that you see in the dashboard. Click here for demo
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Coda 2 review
Just bought Coda 2. First impression: Apple store download took a while. Then I entered into some kind of OSX Lion spaces environment–weird, but maybe it’s because I don’t install stuff from the app store very often. I opened it, and was prompted to jion the mailing list, which I did. The second checkbox, allowing…
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Let's start using points.
Pixels are dying. Or rather, they’re riding off into the sunset. Retinal display is the thing, and today’s 1080p is tomorrow’s 640×480. So as designers, we should stop designing in pixels, completely. We should start using points instead. % and em are great, but they’re relative. So if you tell me something is 1 em wide, I…
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Inside out learning
I’m going to be talking a lot about a concept that’s been brewing in my head lately: “Inside out learning”…stay tuned…
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I hate restaurants.
Most people love restaurants. I’m gonna go on record and state affirmatively that I hate them. I hate being seated, being served (no one should ever be “served” in this world), trying to get the attention of the waiter when something inevitably gets f’d up, looking around at the piles of wasted food everywhere, trying…
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Eli
I saw Eli playing with toy guys today-Batman, Frodo, the Mask. I glimpsed him doing it in the front room, in our CA cottage. Probably the last time I’ll ever see it. There is nothing more magical than watching your son play with toy guys; the way their hands and fingers connect with the toy…